Szabolcs Szilagyi (SI-LA-GI)

SI-LA-GI (Szabolcs Szilagyi), Hungarian Swedish contemporary mixed media artist was born in an aristocratic family in Tokaj, Hungary on 17 September 1949. In 1966 he emigrated via Italy to Sweden where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Art and later continued his studies at the University of Stockholm (Science of visual arts). He also worked with experimental film and photography in the 1960s and started to work with videos in 1973. He was a pioneer in the mid-1970s who began making installations using video.